Wiki Announcements 2013
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COM winner for April: Marcos Fabio Pereira (02 May 2013)
Marcos Fabio Pereira (mfabiop ) has been selected as COM winner for the month of April.
Marcos created a number of articles including the very useful How to use SQLite in Windows Phone (and its translation to Portuguese - Como usar o SQLite no Windows Phone). He has also written about How to write a state machine to handle speech recognition and a series of articles on connecting and using the Arduino hardware platform on both Windows Phone and Series 40: Windows Phone 8 communicating with Arduino using Bluetooth, Windows Phone 8 comunicando com Arduino usando Bluetooth, Series 40 communicating with Arduino using Bluetooth, Simple home automation project with a Windows Phone 8 an Arduino and a TV.
Marcos has every reason to be proud - he was up against the toughest competition in many months, with great articles and translations from bintk , cadlg , vinayppatil and somnathbanik . What set him apart this month was that he also reviewed other developers work and provided helpful constructive criticism to help them improve their work.
We'll be sending Marcos a a bright red Lumia 820. Please join me in congratulating him on the discussion boards.
Next month we've got another bright red Lumia 820 for our Wiki Contributor of the Month. That could be you - all you need to do is contribute useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or significantly shape up the existing ones!
Marketing in a Box Wiki Competition is now complete (11 April 2013)
Series 40 Webinars - Contribute and Win Competition 2013Q1 with Marketing in a Box is now complete and winners have been announced. We highly recommend you check out the winning articles as they are truly outstanding: Getting the most out of Marketing In a Box (cadlg ) and Integrating your social presence with the Digital Marketing Toolkit website (jappit ).
We hope cadlg
and jappit
enjoy their brand new Nokia Asha 311 and Nokia 808 PureView. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
COM winner for March: Sara Silva (02 April 2013)
Sara Silva (saramgsilva ) has been selected as COM winner for the month of March.
Sara has been a contributor for only a couple of months but has already made her mark with a number of great articles including Points to consider before submitting an app to the Windows Phone Store, Advanced About Page for Windows Phone apps, with additional articles for how to create simple "About pages" using Coding4Fun and Telerik controls nearing completion: Coding4Fun - using the AboutPrompt control, Telerik RadControls - Rapid About Page for Windows Phone apps.
In addition, Sara is also helping her native Portuguese community by creating translations of these articles (Página avançada Sobre para aplicações de Windows Phone and Pontos a se considerar antes de submeter uma aplicação à Windows Phone Store).
We'll be sending Sara a a bright red Lumia 820. Please join me in congratulating her on the discussion boards.
Next month we've got another bright red Lumia 820 for our Wiki Contributor of the Month. That could be you - all you need to do is contribute useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or significantly shape up the existing ones!
COM winner for February: Aady (07 March 2013)
Aady has been selected as COM winner for the month of February.
Aady has been a contributor since last year's Windows Phone 8 Wiki Competition 2012Q4. Since then he has done lots of great work merging duplicated competition content, fixing articles, and offering support and advice to authors in comments. He's also created new articles on multi-platform development, including Cross Platform Mobile Architecture and Camera Pic & GeoTagging App using PhoneGap.
We'll be sending Aady a brand new Lumia 920 and a Premium Developer Program membership. Please join me in congratulating him on the discussion boards.
Next month we've got a bright red Lumia 820 for our Wiki Contributor of the Month. That could be you - all you need to do is contribute useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or significantly shape up the existing ones!
COM winner for January: Vaishali Rawat (01 February 2013)
Vaishali Rawat has been selected as COM winner for the month of January.
The moderators selected Vaishali for her consistent and ongoing support of the wiki over many months - regularly creating new topics and also helping to improve other developer's articles. Recently she has written several new articles for Windows Phone including LinkedIn: Authentication and viewing own basic profile, Flickr: Authentication using Hammock & finding own's and others Info and Twitter: Posting Tweets using Hammock.
We'll be sending Vaishali a brand new Lumia 920, along with our thanks for her great community spirit. Please join me and wiki moderators to congratulate Vaishali on the discussion boards.
We awarded a 920 for December COM and we have another 920 reserved for February too. You can be a Contributor of the Month by contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones!
Featured Articles - author awards (31 January 2013)
Featured Articles are wiki articles that the moderators have selected as being particularly interesting or useful. Over the next 8 or more weeks, featured articles can win their author a Lumia 800 (even if they are not about Windows Phone).
See the blog for more information.
Print a shell for your Nokia Lumia 820 (21 January 2013)
In what we believe to be a phone manufacturer first, we are providing the mechanical drawings for the Lumia 820’s back shell so you can modify and enhance the design then print it out on a 3D printer. These can be found on the wiki in 3D print a shell for your Nokia Phone
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